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Discovery of ML314, a Brain Penetrant Nonpeptidic β‑Arrestin Biased Agonist of the Neurotensin NTR1 Receptor Satyamaheshwar Peddibhotla,† Michael P. Hedrick,‡ Paul Hershberger,† Patrick R. Maloney,† Yujie Li,‡ Monika Milewski,‡ Palak Gosalia,‡ Wilson Gray,‡ Alka Mehta,† Eliot Sugarman,† Becky Hood,† Eigo Suyama,† Kevin Nguyen,† Susanne Heynen-Genel,‡ Stefan Vasile,† Sumeet Salaniwal,‡ Derek Stonich,‡ Ying Su,‡ Arianna Mangravita-Novo,† Michael Vicchiarelli,† Gregory P. Roth,† Layton H. Smith,† Thomas D. Y. Chung,‡ Glen R. Hanson,§ James B. Thomas,⊥ Marc G. Caron,∥ Lawrence S. Barak,*,∥ and Anthony B. Pinkerton*,‡ †

Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Orlando, Florida 32827, United States ‡ Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States § Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, 260 S. Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States ∥ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States ⊥ RTI International, 3040 E Cornwallis Road, Durham, North Carolina 27709, United States S Supporting Information *

ABSTRACT: The neurotensin 1 receptor (NTR1) is an important therapeutic target for a range of disease states including addiction. A high-throughput screening campaign, followed by medicinal chemistry optimization, led to the discovery of a nonpeptidic β-arrestin biased agonist for NTR1. The lead compound, 2-cyclopropyl-6,7-dimethoxy-4-(4-(2methoxyphenyl)-piperazin-1-yl)quinazoline, 32 (ML314), exhibits full agonist behavior against NTR1 (EC50 = 2.0 μM) in the primary assay and selectivity against NTR2. The effect of 32 is blocked by the NTR1 antagonist SR142948A in a dosedependent manner. Unlike peptide-based NTR1 agonists, compound 32 has no significant response in a Ca2+ mobilization assay and is thus a biased agonist that activates the β-arrestin pathway rather than the traditional Gq coupled pathway. This bias has distinct biochemical and functional consequences that may lead to physiological advantages. Compound 32 displays good brain penetration in rodents, and studies examining its in vivo properties are underway. KEYWORDS: NTR1, neurotensin, GPCR, SR142948A, quinazoline, agonist, β-arrestin bias, addiction

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self-administered, and (c) the effects were associated with nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 receptors.2 NTR1 is a G protein coupled receptor (GPCR). Two distinct, interdependent paradigms are associated with GPCR signaling. In addition to the well-defined signaling cascades involving heterotrimeric G proteins, recent advances in receptor pharmacology have identified the importance of β-arrestins in regulating alternative biochemical cascades that produce their own unique biological effects.3 For example, in a mouse model, Allen et al. developed a series of β-arrestin-2 biased agonists for the D(2)R with antipsychotic properties and, most importantly, a

ethamphetamine addiction is a major public health concern in the United States.1 Due to high relapse rates and the difficulty in breaking addiction, there is an urgent need for new medications. Neurotensin (NT) receptors are expressed on dopaminergic neurological pathways associated with reward, and the neurotensin receptor 1 (NTR1) has been implicated as a therapeutic target for the treatment of methamphetamine abuse. In particular, peptide-based NTR1 agonists produce behaviors that are exactly opposite to the psychostimulant effects observed with methamphetamine, such as hyperactivity, neurotoxicity, psychotic episodes, and cognitive deficits. These studies found that in a methamphetamine self-administration rat model (a) the substitution of the peptide NT agonist (Lys(CH2NH)lysPro,Trp-tert-Leu-Leu-OEt) for methamphetamine did not significantly affect motor activity but dramatically reduced lever pressing associated with the drug, (b) the peptide agonist was not © XXXX American Chemical Society

Received: May 13, 2013 Accepted: July 22, 2013

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Compound 5, a quinazoline derivative, was identified as a singleton hit with an EC50 of 20× selectivity over NTR2 and GPR35. In this report we discuss the design and synthesis of SAR analogues that led to the discovery of 32, as well as its in vitro and in vivo pharmacological profiling. Analogues were synthesized from substituted methyl anthranilates in three steps using previously reported methods (Scheme 1).22,23 Acid-catalyzed condensation of methyl 2amino-4,5-dimethoxybenzoate (3a) with cyclobutane carbonitrile afforded the 4-hydroxyquinazoline intermediate 4a. Chlorination of 4a followed by amination under microwave heating with various substituted aryl piperazines provided the primary hit compound 5 and quinazoline analogues 14−23 (Scheme 1A). For a second point of diversity 3a was condensed with a range of substituted nitriles to afford 4-hydroxyquinazolines (4b−4l), which were converted to the corresponding quinazolines (25− 36) by sequential chlorination and amination with 1-(2methoxyphenyl)-piperazine hydrochloride (Scheme 1B). 2-(2Chloroethyl)-6,7-dimethoxyquinazolin-4-ol (4h) under the above conditions resulted in the 2-vinyl analogue (31) via elimination and compound 36 via double addition (Scheme 1B). Using the above three-step route, differentially substituted methyl anthranilates (3b−3e) were converted to compounds 37−41 via 4-hydroxyquinazolines (4m−q) (Scheme 1C). Similarly, 2-cyclopropyl-6,7-dimethoxyquinazolin-4-ol (4i) was subjected to chlorination and then treated with diverse 1substituted piperazines to access quinazolines 42−49 (Scheme 1D). All final compounds were obtained in moderate yields and high purity needed to support SAR studies. Compound 5, the singleton screening hit (EC50 = 5.9 μM and E max ∼85% of the NT(8−13) peptide response), was resynthesized (Scheme 1A) and was confirmed equipotent to the purchased material (Table 1; entry 5). A small set of commercially available 2-phenylquinazolines (Table 1, entries 6−13) tested inactive except for the 2-methoxyphenylpiperazine derived analogue 6, which displayed partial agonist activity (EC50 = 20 μM). In general we saw full agonist activity for all compounds regardless of potency with some exceptions, although in no case was the Emax below ∼70%. To expand the SAR around the singleton hit 5, a focused set of analogues was prepared to investigate the effect of various substituents and their positions on the aryl piperazine moiety. This revealed that, irrespective of the electronic nature, all substituents that were smaller or comparable in size to the 2-OMe group retained activity within 2−4 fold of compound 5 (Table 2; entries 14− 17). Much larger 2-nitro and basic 2-pyridyl groups were far less potent than 5 (>6 fold; Table 2; entries 18, 19). Altering the position of the methoxy group, and disubstitution, also led to a significant loss of potency (>4−13 fold; Table 2; entries 20−23). We next investigated the role of substituents at the 2-position of the quinazoline ring occupied by the cyclobutyl ring in 5 (Table 3, entry 5). 2-H and 2-Me analogs incurred complete loss of activity (Table 3, entry 24−25); however, the 2-benzyl analog (Table 3, entry 26) was 2.3× less active than compound 5. Combined with the fact that 2-phenyl quinazolines (Table 1, entries 6−13) were mostly inactive, we speculated that a methylene linker between the 2-substituent and the quinazoline

reduced propensity to induce catalepsy-like standard neuroleptic antagonists.4,5 These studies illustrate how ligand directed signaling bias, in this case favoring β-arrestin, can ameliorate undesirable biological outcomes. Downstream modulators of βarrestin/GPCR signaling are less well-characterized than their G protein counterparts and, due to their potential as targets for producing new medical therapies, are the subjects of increasing numbers of investigations. Well-recognized β-arrestin partners include the proteins Src, ERK, and Jnk. Their agonist-induced interactions with β-arrestin are associated with clathrincompartmentalized signaling and the accumulation of ligand activated β-arrestin/GPCR complexes in clathrin-coated pits.6 The determination as to whether a GPCR ligand is biased toward or against β-arrestin may consequently be evaluated by following these biochemical processes.7−10 Although there have been reports11,12 of NTR1 antagonists, there have been few reports of small molecule nonpeptide agonists for NTR1, even though the tridecapeptide neurotensin was characterized in the 1970s.13−15 Recently, two known trisubstituted pyrazole antagonists, SR48692 (1a) and SR142948A (1b), were modified to identify partial agonists11,12,16,17 such as 2 (Figure 1). Additionally, two simple

Figure 1. Examples of known pyrazole based NTR1 antagonists 1a and 1b and agonist 2.

leucine derivatives unrelated to 1a, 1b, and 2 have shown partial agonist activity for NTR1.18 However, there have been no reports of in vivo activity associated with nonpeptide agonists. Newly published X-ray crystallography data showing the neurotensin fragment NT (8−13) in a NTR1 binding site may assist the design of nonpeptide agonists and antagonists in the future.19 To identify nonpeptide small molecule NTR1 agonists, we carried out high content screening (HCS) of receptor/β-arrestinGFP complexes based on a β-arrestin conjugated green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter expressed in a U2OS cell line (see Supporting Information for details). This assay measured the quantification of β-arrestin/GFP puncta. A library of 331,861 compounds from the MLSMR (Molecular Libraries Small Molecule Repository)20 was tested in this high-content primary screen. This campaign [PubChem AID 493055]21 identified 559 compounds with ≥40% activity of NT (8−13) peptide, which is the prototypical reference agonist, at 20 μM. Liquid samples (499 compounds) were resupplied and tested at 20 μM, and 184 compounds showed >40% activity. The confirmed compounds were tested in a dose response format in the HCS primary assay. Dose response testing of reconstituted dry powders of 122 compounds that had an EC50 < 20 μM was performed in a three-assay panel: the NTR1 HCS primary assay to assess potency, and the NTR2 and GPR35 HCS assays to ascertain selectivity against a related and unrelated GPCR. B

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Scheme 1. Synthesis of NTR1 Agonists 32 and Analoguesa

Conditions:22 (i) alkyl carbonitrile, 4 M HCl (1,4-dioxane), 100 °C, 15 h; (ii) POCl3, reflux, 15 h; (iii) piperazine derivative (1.5 equiv), K2CO3 (3 equiv), 1,4-dioxane, microwave, 80 °C, 1.5 h, 1−46% overall yield over three steps. a

Table 1. SAR of Quinazoline Agonists of NTR1, Compounds 6−13

compound NT(8−13) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

R1 6,7-di-OMe 6,7-di-OMe 6,7-di-OMe 6,7-di-OMe 6,7-di-OMe 6,7-di-OMe 6-OEt, 7OMe 6-OEt, 7OMe 6-OEt, 7OMe

R2

R3

EC50a (μM)

Emaxa (%) 100.0 85.3

cyclobutyl phenyl phenyl phenyl phenyl phenyl phenyl

2-OMe 2-OMe H 2-F 4-F 2-Cl 2-OMe

0.001 (>4) 5.9 ± 0.5 (10) 20 ± 11 (5) >80 >80 >80 >80 >80

phenyl

H

>80

phenyl

2-F

>80

Table 2. SAR of Quinazoline-Based Agonists of NTR1, Compounds 14−23

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compound

R

EC50a (μM)

Emaxa (%)

NT(8−13) 5 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

2-methoxyphenyl phenyl o-tolyl 2-fluorophenyl 2-chlorophenyl pyridin-2-yl 2-nitrophenyl 3-methoxyphenyl 4-methoxyphenyl 2,4-dimethoxyphenyl 2,6-dimethylphenyl

0.001 (>4) 5.9 ± 0.5 (10) 12 ± 1.4 15 ± 3.2 18 ± 1.0 (3) 12 ± 2.5 26 ± 2 (6) 75 ± 1 (2) 17 ± 1.0 (2) 46 ± 18 (3) 23 ± 0.4 (6) 61 ± 5.2

100.0 85.3 77.0 916 97.2 70.5 91.4 100.0 74.9 100.0 103.3 100.0

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HCS NTR1 potency measured relative to the EC100 (100 nM) of the NT(8−13) peptide control average ± SEM (n = 4 unless otherwise noted); Emax was calculated as the % of the response obtained with NT(8−13) peptide. None of the compounds from this series showed activity in the NTR2 (>80 μM) and GPR35 (>40 μM) counterscreens.

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HCS NTR1 potency measured relative to the EC100 (100 nM) of the NT(8−13) peptide control average ± SEM (n = 4 unless otherwise noted); Emax was calculated as the % of the response obtained with NT(8−13) peptide. None of the compounds from this series showed activity in the NTR2 (>80 μM) and GPR35 (>40 μM) counterscreens.

compound 32 (ML314, Table 3), which is a full agonist (EC50 = 2.0 μM) with 3-fold improvement in activity over 5. This met the probe criteria established for the NIH’s MLPCN (Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network) program.24 The larger 2-cyclopentyl (Table 3, entry 33) was equipotent, and the extended 2-methylcyclopropyl analogue (entry 34) was 2.4× less potent than 5. Furthermore,

might improve potency and hence generated analogs with alkyl, branched alkyl and vinyl substituents (Table 3, entries 27−31). The 2-isopropyl and 2-vinyl derivatives were found to be equipotent to compound 5 (Table 3, entries 29 and 31). This result prompted the synthesis of the 2-cyclopropyl analogue, C

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Table 3. SAR of Quinazoline-Based Agonists of NTR1, Compounds 24−36

Table 4. SAR of Quinazoline-Based Agonists of NTR1, Compounds 37−41

compound NT(8−13) 5 37 38 39 40 41

R1

R2

Emaxa (%)

EC50a (μM)

cyclobutyl cyclobutyl cyclobutyl cyclobutyl

0.001 (>4) 5.9 ± 0.5 (10) 10 ± 1.6 30 ± 0 (3) 23 ± 3.9 34 ± 17 (3)

101.9 111.5 100.0 87.0

cyclopropyl

4.1 ± 0.5

95.7

6,7-di-OMe

cyclobutyl

6-OMe 7-OMe H 6,7-OCH2Odioxolane 6-OMe

100.0 85.3

a

HCS NTR1 potency measured relative to the EC100 (100 nM) of the NT(8−13) peptide control average ± SEM (n = 4 unless otherwise noted); Emax was calculated as the % of the response obtained with NT(8−13) peptide. None of the compounds from this series showed activity in the NTR2 (>80 μM) and GPR35 (>40 uM) counterscreens.

Table 5. SAR of Quinazoline-Based Agonists of NTR1, Compounds 42−49

a

HCS NTR1 potency measured relative to the EC100 (100 nM) of the NT(8−13) peptide control average ± SEM (n = 4 unless otherwise noted); Emax was calculated as the % of the response obtained with NT(8−13) peptide. None of the compounds from this series showed activity in the NTR2 (>80 μM) and GPR35 (>40 μM) counterscreens.

incorporation of basic nitrogen containing substituents (Table 3, entries 35, 36) resulted in significantly diminished activity. We also investigated the importance of 6- and 7-OMe groups. Thus, systematic removal of 7-OMe, 6-OMe, and both 6- and 7OMe groups (Table 4, entries 37−39), revealed that 6-OMe is key to activity and its removal leads to a ∼4−6 fold loss in activity (Table 4, entries 38 and 39). This trend was maintained in the corresponding 2-cyclopropyl-6-methoxy analogue of 32 (Table 4, entry 41). When the 6- and 7-OMe groups were joined as part of a dioxolane ring (Table 4, entry 40), the potency dropped by over 6-fold compared to 5. Having the more potent and full agonist 32 in hand, we investigated the aryl piperazine moiety with the goal of further improving the potency. Replacement of the 2-OMe group with the larger 2-OEt or an electronegative 2-Cl led to >3−10 fold loss in potency compared to 32 (Table 5, entries 42 and 43). This was a more pronounced effect than that observed for the primary hit compound 5. Replacement of the N-arylpiperazine group in 32 with benzenesulfonyl, substituted benzyl, or benzoyl groups led to significant erosion of activity (>10−40 fold; Table 5, entries 44−49), demonstrating the importance of a 2-methoxyphenyl group in this region of the molecule. Compound 32 was further profiled in an orthogonal NTR1 activation assay based on DiscoveRx β-arrestin complementation and a downstream functional assay measuring Ca2+ Flux (ChanTest). The agonist activity of 32 in the primary NTR1 HCS assay was confirmed in the DiscoveRx β-arrestin assay

compound

R

EC50a (μM)

Emaxa (%)

NT(8−13) 32 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

2-methoxyphenyl 2-ethoxyphenyl 2-chlorophenyl benzenesulfonyl 4-methylbenzyl 2-methoxybenzyl benzoyl 2-methoxybenzoyl H

0.001 (>4) 2.0 ± 0.1 (8) 6.1 ± 0.4 20 ± 2.2 >80 25 ± 3.2 35 ± 4.4 45 (1) 68 ± 5.5 (3) >80

100.0 104.7 98.4 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

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HCS NTR1 potency measured relative to the EC100 (100 nM) of the NT(8−13) peptide control average ± SEM (n = 4 unless otherwise noted); Emax was calculated as the % of the response obtained with NT(8−13) peptide. None of the compounds from this series showed activity in the NTR2 (>80 μM) and GPR35 (>40 uM) counterscreens.

(EC50 = 3.41 μM; Emax = 86.6%). Compound 32 was inactive (EC50 = >80 uM, Figure 2A, B) in the NTR1 Ca2+ Flux assay. In contrast, the known16 partial agonist 2 showed activity (EC50 = 0.75 μM) and only partial agonism (Emax < 80%) in the NTR1 HCS assay. Interestingly, 2 was inactive in the DiscoveRx βarrestin assay (EC50 > 33 μM) but showed evidence of traditional Gq signaling in the Ca2+ flux assay (EC50 < 156 nM, Emax = 63%). The latter result was consistent with the published data for 2 (EC50 = 67 nM, Emax = 54%).16,17 Thus, 32 appears to be a biased agonist operating via the β-arrestin pathway rather than the traditional Gq coupled pathway. Specificity of binding of 32 to NTR1 was evaluated by the ability of the antagonist 1b to block the response of 32 in the HCS assay (Figure 2C). Previous studies have eported the inhibition of binding of [125I]-NT peptide to the NTR1 receptor by 1b (IC50 = 0.24 nM).25 Preincubation with 1b inhibited compound 32 (EC100 = 10 μM) D

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Figure 2. (A) Dose response of the NT(8−13) peptide in the NTR1 HCS, β-arrestin, and Ca2+ Flux assays. (B) Compound 32 (ML314) in the NTR1 HCS, β-arrestin, and Ca2+ Flux assays, and the NTR2 HCS assay. Percent efficacy in each assay is measured relative to the NT peptide control. (C) Inhibitory dose response of NTR1 antagonist 1b in the presence of an EC100 concentration (10 μM) of compound 32; data points/curves represent the average of all dose response experiment runs.

The low metabolic stability may be associated with the presence of several unsubstituted aryl and alkyl positions and Ar-OMe ethers susceptible to oxidation, hydrolysis, conjugation, and other metabolic reactions. Compound 32 had a >15-fold window for toxicity (LC50 = 30 μM) toward human hepatocytes. Compound 32 was profiled for its mouse pharmacokinetics and showed hepatic clearance and moderate exposure after intraperitoneal dosing (clearance 81 mL/min/kg, Vdss 6.22 L/kg, t1/2 1.93 h after a 2 mg/kg intravenous dose, Cmax 763 ng/mL, t1/2 2.58 h, AUC 1223 ng·h/mL after a 10 mg/kg intraperitoneal dose) (see Supporting Information for details). However, 32 displayed excellent brain penetration, with brain levels of 924 ng/ mL and 1506 ng/mL at 1 h after a 10 mg/kg or 30 mg/kg intraperitoneal dose (brain/plasma 1.3 or 1.6, respectively). In conclusion, a high-throughput screen of the MLSMR collection using a NTR1 β-arrestin recruitment HCS assay identified a singleton partial agonist, quinazoline 5, which was optimized via medicinal chemistry to discover a potent full agonist 32. Compound 32 was >20× selective over NTR2 and was inhibited from forming ligand activated β-arrestin/NTR1 complexes by antagonist 1b in a dose-dependent manner. Compound 32 had no significant activity in a Ca2+ flux assay, in contrast to previously known agonists, and is therefore an apparent biased agonist operating via the β-arrestin pathway rather than the traditional Gq coupled pathway. Compound 32 displayed moderate pharmacokinetics and showed good BBB penetration in mice. Although 32 displayed some promiscuity in binding assays to other GPCRs, it showed no functional activity at other receptors tested. We are currently investigating its apparent signaling bias and associated physiological consequences. Current efforts to optimize 32 further and improve its in vivo profile are underway.

mediated NTR1 activation with an IC 50 of 50.1 nM, demonstrating that 32 is inhibited from forming aggregates by 1b in a dose-dependent manner. This result supports the mechanistic hypothesis that 32 acts via NTR1 binding. A PubChem analysis of compound 5 (CID1230852) displayed very low cross reactivity, with NTR1 being the only receptor activity 297/21.4/1.2 1.1 1163/2145/2093 399 99.5/99.2 99.7/98.9 100/99.6 1.4/0.2



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permeability in the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay (PAMPA) with increasing pH of the donor compartment.30 When incubated with an artificial membrane that models the blood−brain barrier (BBB), 32 was highly permeable. Compound 32 was highly plasma protein bound and exhibited very high plasma stability but was metabolized rapidly when incubated in vitro with human and mouse liver homogenates.

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